| QUOTE (hamepages @ 12-Dec-2007, 07:44 AM) | In recent years “Ae Fond Kiss” has become one of the best known and best loved of all Robert Burns’ songs. But I wonder how many people realise that the now familiar tune is not the one that Burns wrote the famous words to?
The lyrics were in fact set to a tune titled Rory Dall’s Port and if you would like to hear the song in its original 1791 form you can do by visiting the site for the new musical “Clarinda” at www.clarindathemusical.com. Click on “Sound Clips” and then “Track 7” and listen to “Ae Fond Kiss” performed by “Clarinda” composer Kevin Walsh.
While visiting the site check out the dates for “Clarinda” on stage – it opens in Edinburgh on Burns Night, 25 January 2008 before touring in Scotland. And if you have a moment, why not sign the guest book? |
Thank you and Robert Burns, for I needed to cry.
JC
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We’re all poets, only some of us write it down. JC 9/27/08
Anyone who has the courage to disagree, deserves all do respect. JC 4/28/08
Life is a loosing battle, so you might as well live it up.
J.C. 3/29/08
Life should be like skiing, you have the most fun on the way down. J.C. 8/17/07
Take their word for it, and that’s just what you’ll get.
J.C. 3/19/07
Only the truth is worth the ultimate sacrifice.
J.C. 1/26/06
Compared to the far right, the far left is somewhere in the middle. J.C. 2/22/06
I’ll be the first to apologies, as long as I get one back.
J.C. 3/7/06
It’s a happy man, who can laugh at himself.
If you’re looking for a new experience, don’t hire someone with a lot of it. J.C. sometime in 1990
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Clarindas Reply On Stage, "Ae Fond Kiss"
